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BOSTON—As the Harvard baseball team discovered yesterday, Fenway Park looks a little less nice when you’re watching your opponent celebrate at home plate.For the second straight game, Crimson relief squandered a comfortable early lead and walked off the mound in defeat. After taking third base on a passed ball, Northeastern’s Tony DiCesare scored on Mike Lyon’s infield single to give the Huskies a 7-6, 10-inning victory in the consolation game of the Beanpot Tournament at Fenway Park yesterday.Harvard shortstop Jeff Stoeckel fielded Lyon?...
...basic baseball knowledge that a ball off the wall should give the batter an extra-base hit, however, the wall that Stoeckel hit in left was no basic wall—it was the Green Monster in Boston’s historic Fenway Park...
...taking away that opportunity, especially after Yale and the Ivy League screwed the Crimson out of playing at Fenway last year due to scheduling conflicts, would have dealt Harvard an unfair blow...
...According to team spokesman Jon Blake, Red Sox management initially didn’t think that the field, which the Fenway grounds crew just began working on in March, could handle two games...
...Having said that, what’s important at this point is that the Sox eventually made the correct decision and the Crimson will take the field at Fenway today. As Walsh put it, “I’m very excited. It doesn’t matter what happened or how it came about...